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Howedar
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I would kill for a job where the status quo meant a job well done :roll:
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When they announce "Condition Brown" I will be completly worried....
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Sea Skimmer wrote:Though as I recall there are alert levels above DEFCON One (which basically mean aim your gun at the enemy and switch off the safety), but there generally only regional.
There are also two EMERGCONs IIRC, one of which is meant to indicate imminent or current major attack on U.S. soil by aircraft and/or missiles.
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The only way to keep people on thier toes is martial law now. It's like the anti-smoking ads, no one cares anymore.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"

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